However, Xu Shiyang believes that the most important thing in this operation is actually the suddenness of the battle.

Now that they are forcing the Shanshan Han army to take sides, it would be good if they would definitely be able to throw themselves on their side, but if someone made the opposite choice, they might remind the Mughurs to be vigilant, and then this attack could turn into a disaster.

Xu Shiyang wanted to teach the Mugwu people a profound lesson, not to give himself a hard blow.

"I'll contact them after this sortie and let them make a choice."

徐世杨 says:

"If we can win this time, I think even the stupid people will be able to see the big picture."

The Han army of the Shanxi generation had deep ties with the Mughurs before the Great Zhou Dynasty moved south, and at that time it was only economic exchanges.

When the Great Zhou Dynasty completely collapsed in Jiangbei, those Han army generations even betrayed the Western Army, which was the strongest fighting force in the Zhou army.

After that, the Shanxi Han army has always followed the pace of the Mugyu - even when the Mugyu were in a very bad state and were bullied by the Jurchens very miserably.

According to Xu Shiyang's opinion, these people are a gang of traitors, not much different from the Jin merchants in the late Ming Dynasty in another era, and Xu Shiyang will have to purge these guys sooner or later.

However, he didn't want to start a large-scale battle with these traitors, because the people in the hands of these traitors were also Han Chinese, and these ordinary people naturally had to be treated differently from the world.

More importantly, in the past years (and now) the world's people completely ignored the grievances of their own people, and no matter what happened, they blindly gave in to the Mughu, which was a shame, but it did prevent the two provinces from suffering from a massacre of more than 90% in population as in other Jiangbei provinces.

Therefore, the population of the Shanxi region is relatively large, and the General Staff of the Qi Army estimates that the population of Han people in the two provinces is around 1.3 million, and the population should be more than 6.5 million, which is more than twice the total population of Qi at present.

Xu Shiyang didn't care about those Han army generations, but he wanted to absorb this huge population wealth as completely as possible.

Therefore, Xu Shiyang thought about trying to show his strength and force the other party to compromise with him and avoid a civil war with them.

After that, the crimes of the world will be liquidated by other means.

……

In May of the fifth year of Longdao, the Qi army launched a large-scale spring offensive against the Jurchens on the front line of Shanhaiguan and southern and eastern Liaoning.

The main goal of the attack was still to interfere with the Jurchen spring ploughing, to wipe out the Jurchen population as much as possible, kill livestock, and burn grain stocks and villages, so as to weaken the Jurchen war potential.

At the same time, with the infantry as the main force, the Shanhaiguan direction advanced to the Guangning line, and the southern Liaoning advanced to the Tashanpu line, building garrison fortresses and tunbao along the way, gradually eroding the scorched earth area set up by the Jurchen Tatars, and approaching the Liaozhong Plain step by step.

In order to achieve this, the Qi army successively mobilized more than 80% of the cavalry and half of the infantry of the New Army to cover the advance of 2,000 households in each of the two strategic directions.

The Qi army actually dispatched more than 50,000 troops, and most of the rest of the men and horses were defending in various places, and all the surrounding forces concerned about the situation in Liaodong felt that the mobile forces that the Qi army could dispatch were very limited.

However, Xu Shiyang chose to launch another large-scale attack at this time.

First of all, in mid-May, Xu Shiyang ordered a large-scale mobilization of reserves and militia, requiring the mobilization of 150 reserve companies and 350 militia companies in Hebei Province, with a total of 500 companies and 50,000 people.

Qi Province mobilized 200 reserve companies and 400 militia companies, a total of 600 companies and 60,000 people.

The direction of southern Liaoning does not move.

In this way, the Qi State suddenly had an additional 110,000 troops, which were not suitable for an attack, but they were not the slightest problem in defending their homeland.

Xu Shiyang used these second- and third-line troops to replace 85 Shenji Soldier Companies, 35 Selective Soldier Companies, and 10 Artillery Companies, a total of 130 companies and 13,000 people, plus more than 1,000 people from the Guards and Engineer Units, 2,000 people from the Blue Army Brigade, 2,000 trapped soldiers, and Wang Qinian's 2,000 horse thieves, a total of 20,000 troops.

The field army drawn from all over the country went to Yanjing to assemble, and then divided the troops into three routes and launched an attack at the same time.

Among them, 7,000 people of the Western Route Army were commanded by Lin Chong, starting from Yongning and heading north along the Tang River.

The Middle Route Army, commanded by Xu Shiyang himself, totaled 6,000 men, set out from Miyun and attacked the Mongwu settlements such as Hushiha, Hadang and Mantaoer along the Chaohe River, planning that the Central Route Army and the Western Route Army would meet at Mantaoer, and then continue north.

The Eastern Route Army acted alone, and the commander was Shangshu Gongsun Sheng of the Qi State Army, with a strength of 7,000 troops, and went out of the Xifeng Pass to attack Chengde along the Luan River north.

Xu Shiyang's strategic goal was to wipe out or expel all the Mughal tribes within a thousand miles north of the Great Wall, and if possible, destroy all the cities occupied by the Muguls along the way.

……

At the end of May, the Qi army suddenly left the pass, and the three-way army, led by the horse thieves, went straight to the traditional nomadic sites of the Mughus.

With no fear of getting lost, the nomadic Mughal tribes scattered all over the country were completely defenseless.

Most of the time, a few hundred horse thieves, supported by a handful of Qi cavalry, were able to disarm a medium-sized tribe in a single assault.

When encountering a large tribe of thousands of Dingkou, it was pinned down by cavalry, and the infantry followed up to eliminate it.

The infantry of the Qi army carried five days' dry rations each, forced a surprise march, and after destroying a tribe, they killed all the cattle and sheep of the Mughal people to supplement the rations, and the horses were strengthened into the various units to increase their mobility.

In this attack, the Qi army did not retain any prisoners at all—except for the captive Han Chinese, all Mugyus, men, women, and children, were executed, so as not to increase the burden of the march.

……

In just over 20 days, the three-way Qi army has arrived near Hanhai, during which they have destroyed hundreds of large and small Mengwu tribes, and the results of each division are as follows:

At least 12,000 Mugul, about 60,000 people, were wiped out.

More than 10,000 captive Han Chinese (including Shanxi, Shaanxi, and a small number of slaves of other nationalities) were rescued, 20,000 horses were obtained, and more than 500,000 cattle, sheep and livestock were killed or seized.

To the south of Hanhai, Monan Mengwu was almost killed by the sudden Qi army and turned into a blank field.

It was not until the beginning of June that the Mughul Gul Khan Zamuhe, who was in Hala and Lin, realized how fierce the Qi army's attack was, and he hurriedly gathered the Mongwu troops, gathered 70,000 cavalry, and set out from Hala and Lin on June 12, and advanced to the south to prepare for a decisive battle with the Qi army.

However, by this time, the Qi army had achieved all its strategic objectives and began to return to its homeland on the 10th day of June.

On 15 June, near Hushiha, near Miyun, the Western Route Army and the Central Route Army, together with their divisions, dispatched the cavalry and horse thieves of the Qi army led by Lin Chong and Wang Qinian to launch a counterattack against the advance of the Mengwu army, which was closely following the troops.

The Mongol light cavalry lost hundreds of people, and the Qi army and the horse thieves lost more than 30 people each, and the two sides temporarily disengaged.